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~ WINSTON CHurchill's war MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK

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By May 17, the French were believed to have lost three-quarters of their fighter

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tinued their withdrawal to the

temporary

The Problems

Boon,

Nightmare

By Winston Churchill

Bluntly

nood at present to dwell upon such ideas. Once more thank- ing you for your good will... Far-reaching changes were now the Reynaud In

Good More

"New Hotel Rates Become Law." Yes, but that doesn't.get you a bed.

Soviet cars regarding Norway appear to be baseless.

At a penny a word; The Director of Audit could almost retire and cave the S.T. and 1. in peace.

Something should be done about who suggest those defeatisS building moderar-luddlesporakan. at Stonicy..

Dutch model before very long. island, and, provided we canininde by M. and we hope to give a good ne-

got the help for which we ask, French Cabinet and High Com But it

run count of ourselves.

we hope to

them very mand. On the 18th Marshal

was appointed Vice American assistance is to play close in the air battles in view Polain

An American banker has chok- any part it must bo available of individual superiority. Mem- President of the Councill. Rey-

ed to death on a pleco of steak. In hara of the present Adminis-naud himself, transferring Datad- Former Naval Person to President

tration would [bo] likely [to] ler to Foreign Affairs, took over some of our local restaurants this Roosevelt.

20. V. 40.

go down during this process the Ministry of Defence and War, would be a physical impossibility.. Lothian has reported his con-

should it remalt adversely, but At 7pm. on the 19th he appoint-

As one or anoliter af our Itofa- versation with you. I under- in na conceivablo 'circumstances ed Weygand, who has just arrived

transient atand your difficulties, but I will we consent to surrender.

from the Levant, to replace Geners might say, Life is am very sorry about the des- If members of the present, Ad- Gamelin. I had known Weygand business, anway, troyers. If they were here in

ministration were finished and when he was the right-hand man other camo in to parley amid of Marshal Foch, and had admir- six weeks they would play an MVLOMNA pálenie karke betty loan streetres-press-menanoi bosch-kisemasterisi, intervention in, Franco is full of danger to blind to is fact that the sole the Battle of Warsaw against the both sides, Thougir ve have remaining bargaining counter Bolshevik invasion of Poland In taken heavy toll of tite enemy with Germany would be the August, 1020-an even' decisive

Mr. Shinwell, Minister of War: in the air and arc clawing Fleet, and, if this country was for Europe at that time. He was dawn two or three to one of left by the United States to its now 70, but was reported to be" am not one to despise the En- their planes, they have still a fate, no one would have the efficient and vigorous in a very spire." One can only deplore this formidable numerical: superfor right to blame those thou high degree, A

jingolatic enthusiasm. ity'. Our most vital need is. responsible if they made tite therefore, the deilvery at the best terms they could for the earliest

surviving inhabitants possible. date of the largest possible

number. of Excuse me, Mr. President, put- ting this nightmare bluntly, Curtiss P. 46 fighters now. in course of delivery to your Ar Evidently, I could not answer for my successors, who in utter despair and helplessness might With regard to the closing part of

well

to accommodate havo your talk with Lothian, Intention is, whatever happens,

themselves to the German will However, there is happily to fight on to the end in this

our

CANTONESE BY RADIO

Vocabulary: 122. (hong) gong* 123. (t'eng) teng

124. (man) mun

"The

125. (chi) jend

126.

BY S.K. LEE

(cheung) jeung1

Names of places:

(1) Heung Gong2

(2) Sheung Hoit

Lossom 21:

ST. AND I. It would be all too easy to

in intensity. At the re- attach excessive importance to the detailed criticisms of quest of Gen. Georges, the Bri- the conduct of its affairs by tish Army prolonged its defen- the S. T. and I as contained sive lank by occupying points. in the Report of the Direc on the whole line from Dount to Peronne, thus attempting to tor of Audit. Not all that

cover Arras, which was a road- has gone on, within the Decentre vital to any Southward partment can be approved, retreat. That afternoon the Stories of Germans entered Brussels. The by any means.

next day they reached Cambrai. graft and corruption, with or

my. foundation, have passed St. Quentin and brushed without

circulated for long our small parties out of freely months past, and while the Peronne. The French Seventh, the Belgian, the British, and Government rejected a sug- gestion made in Legislative the French First Army all con- Council that an investigation Scheldt, the British standing be undertaken, the effect has along the Dendre for the day, been to increase the flow of and forming the detachment

than to sup- "Petreforce" (a gossip rather press it. None of this, how grouping of various units un-| ever, has anything to do, der Major-Gen. Petre) for the directly, with the strictures defence of Arras.

the

At midnight (May 10-19) Lord of

Colonial Auditor.

Gort was visited at his Head- Close examination of his requarters by Gen Hillotte Net- the personality of this port, point by point, reveals ther

with the French General nor his pro- a deeper concern

as they were, in- the Depart-posals, such correctness of

nilles. spired confidence in his ment's methods, as laid down From this

moment the pos- of a withdrawal to the In the book of words, than sibility he is with the success of its coast began to present itself to operations as revealed in the the British Commander-in-Chief. In his despatch published in overall picture. At no point March, 1941, he wrote: In the Report, is any accusa-picture, was now Inight of the

laid tion

of corruption 19th] no longer that of a line bent or temporarily broken but not or peculation: this is

of a besieged_fortress." even implied in the state- ment that the Depart-

As the result of my visit to and ment's accounts

the Paris and the Cabinet discus- figures in possession of the sions I already found it neces» Accountant-General cannot sary to pose a general question yet be fully reconciled. The to my colleagues. Director of Audit, in fact. Prime Minister to Lord President, 17. V. 40. does not say that this or that I am very much obliged to you

1. Ngaw gong" (bay2) nay. examine for undertaking to action was necessarily wrong:

to-night the consequences of

teng'. but he does insist, frequent-.

the withdrawal of the French ly, that the prior approval of the Secretary of State should have been obtained. In short, as the representative of the Director-General of Colonial Audit, he has done his duty in directing attention to fair- ly frequent occasions when the Colonial Regulations and no more than an enumeration of the main considerations General Orders have been

which arise, and which could 8. Ngun jee2. overlooked or disregarded by

thereafter be remitted to the ---9----- the Department of Supplies,

I am myself seeing to Trade and Industry. He the military authorities at 6.30. The swift fate of Holland was would restore as swiftly 09 possible, in all its pristinen all our minds. Mr. Eden had

already proposed to the glory, yards and yards of red Cabinet the formation of Local and this tape, which the special or Defence Volunteers,

energetically pressed. B. ganisation of the Department plan was

All over the country, in every and the authority given by town and village, bands of de- Sir Mark Young to the Direc-termined

together sporting tor to operate on a commer-armed with shot-guns,

From SPCA.IS. rifies, clubs and cial basis was expressly de- this a vast organisallon was soon

Doubtless, to spring. signed to avoid.

But the need of Re such a state of affairs amountsgulars was also vital.

[Mr. Churchill here prints a to little short of sacrilege in

minate he wrote to Gen. Ismay the eyes of a trained civil

at the time suggesting that servant who is also a highly eight Regular battalions should

We in responsible auditor.

be brought from Palestine, and B. eight Territorial battalions Hong Kong are likely to be

sent to India to enable eight more impressed by results.

more Regular battalions to re- turn from there. He also ques- tions whether the whole British bearing in mind the period which the Report covers.

Armoured Division should be when BMA traditions of

sent to France, in view of the short-circuiting everv ob-

passibility of the French being stacle to progress still held offered a separate peace.] sway in the Government de- partments most vitally con- corned with the speedy re-

3

Combinations:

Government from Paris or the 2. M hoh gong,yun teng1

fall of that city, as well as of the problems which would to arise if it were neceSERKY

the B.E.F. withdraw

from France, either along its.com- munications or by the Belgian and Channel ports. It is quite understood that in the first Instance this report could

staffa

In on came

Telegrams To Roosevelt

3. Teng1mun.

5. Sun1,mun jee**

4. Sunt

mun.

be

6. Tai sunt mun jee2. 7. Sun1. mun jee2 maaye

War

con-

Shup-mun-jee?..

Conversation:

A. Yau meel yeh sun1

,mun neh1?

A.

Ngaw gum1yutmay tai sunt,mun jeesm jeet doh yau meel yeh sunt mun.

Ngaw teng mun nay "hui",dai,yee shue haimi hai neh1? Hai,, ngaw ting1, yut hui Sheung Hol

Been' gaw* gong? nay tea1, neh1?

A. Jeung seen' shaang1

gong ngaw teng.

D. Kui gaysben gong

,nay tengah??

A Ku dzok yut gong?

ngaw teng1.

Nay hui" Sheung Ho dzoh, meel yeh "neh1?

Ngaw Inu tal" "hal Jau mee! yeh maaye

DO YOU

I also thought it necessary habilitation of the Colony.with the approval of my colle Not much attention, for in-ngues to send the following grave stance, would now be paid to telegrams to President Roosevelt the deal over hardwood in order to show how seriously mentioned in, the Audit Re-the interests of the United States

would be affected by tho port, which la supposed to quest and subjugation not only

B. have been a. costly purchase, of France but of Great Britain. Financial The. Cabinet pondered over these although the Secretary's figures go far to drafts for a while, but made no

amendment. dispose of this assessment. Former Naval: Person to President 18. V. 40. The plain fact was that those Roosevelt,

I do not need to tell you about energetic officers who carpe

the gravity of what has hap into Hong Kong with the

pened. Wo are determined to British Military Administra- persevere to the very end what- ever the result of the great tion were out to get things done; and done quickly, and if high prices had to be; pata to obtain the commodities urgently needed, they were paid. Hong Kong's almost Bible) but the times were miraculous recovery, a long abnormal and the Colony jump ahead of any other conformed to the need of the place in the Far East which day. On this particular score, had been subject to Japan- no official concerned has any ese occupation and vandal-upology to make, and tho ism, much be attributed very commercial world would be largely, if not wholly, to the worse than ungrateful and spirit with which a heavy insensible, to the tangible task was tackled. The mobenefits they have derived thods employed were far were they to participato in from orthodox (if Colonial any attempt to make a Regulations are to be regard serious issue out of this par ed as the Civil Servants ticular Report"

battle raging in France may be. KNOW We must expect in any case to be attacked here on the

YOUR

HONG KONG?

can you?

To speak. To talk about.

To listen.

To hear. To smelt.

Paper.

To spread out Classifier for papers, sheets,

tables, etc.

A. Burnuti“

Hong Kong.

Shanghat

El tell you about it.

Don't tell people about it.

To hear

News.

Newspaper.

A read a newspaper.

Newspaper says.

A bank note.

A. Lon dollar note.

no

Final Order

final

Order

Gen. Gamelin's (No. 12) dated 1.45 mm. on May fil prescribed that the Northern Annies, instead of letting them- selves be encircled, must at all costs force their way South- wards to the Somme, atlucking the Fanzor divisions which had eut their communications. At the same me the Second Army and the newly-forming, Sixth were to attnet Northward towards Mezieres. These decisions were sound. Indeed, an Order for the general, retreat of the Northern Armies Southward was already

at least four days overdue.

Once the gravity of the breach In the French contre at Sedan was apparent, the only hope for the Northern Armies Jay_In' an Immediate march to the Somme. Instead, under General Billotte they had ohly made gradual and

to

the partial -withdrawals Scheldt and formed the defensive flank to the right. Even now

.

cannot

An American Congressman says that the United States afford to let China fall under Communist domination. The usual course, when one cannot afford to: forget it. a thing,

Kravchenko, says his ex-wife, went away and left her without azou. But we thought that was what it was all about: "I Chose Freedom."

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According to the latest survey, fifty-one per cent. of Britons are against hereditary titles. The rest would prefer,

to keep them.

.. Eric Eweson; a Swedish chemist in the United States, assures us that mankind is losing the battle with the insects. O.K, O.K., but we getting tired of the persistent antl-Russlan propaganda.

and Shocking

Sinful." No,

there might have been time for ladies, not two new perfumes by Lentherie. Simply comments on the Southward march,

the trial of a cardinal unwise The confusion of the Northern command, the apparent paralysis enough to remain behind the Iron of the First French Army, and Curtain. the uncertainty about what was

the

A man returning unusually late War happening had caused

All Cabinet extreme

one night had reached the bed- anxiety.

room when his wife woke up: "Is cur proceedings were quiet and composed, but we had a united that you John," she asked. and decided opinion, behind sleepily. "Well, it had better be." which there was silent, passion, he

On the 19th we were

Informed

possible

e replied,

(4:30 pm.) that Lord Gort was uncle Sam: "examining

巋

with-

drawal towards Dunkirk if that

were forced upon him."

Southward March

The C.I.GS. (Ironalde) could not accept this proposal as luce most of us, he favoured the Southward march. Wo therefore sent him to Lord Gort with in- the British "structions to move

Army in a South Westerly direc tion and to force his way through all opposition in order to join up with the French in the South, and that the Belgians-should be, urged to conform to this move- ment, or, alternatively, that we would evacute as many of their troops as possible from the Chan nef ports. He was to be told that we would ourselves inform the French` Government of what had been resolved. At the samo

DWI Cabinet wo sent

to Gen. Georges's H.Q. with. which we |had a direct telephone. He was to stay there for four days and te un all he could find out. Con- acts even with Lord Gort were Intermittent and difficult, but it was reported that only four days supplies and ammunition for one battle were, available,

At the moming War. Cabiriet of May 20 we again discussed the situation of our Army. Even on the assumption of a success- ful fighting retreat to the Som-: me, I thought it likely that cou siderable numbers might be 'cut Yes, I'm going to Shanghal to off or driven back on the · ECO, ¡

What's the news?

I haven't yet read the paper .today and don't know what

the news Is.

I heard that you are going

elsewhere, is that so?

morrow.

Who told you about it?

Mr. Jeung, told me about it

When did he tell you?

He told me yesterday,

What are you going

Shanghai for?:

I'm going to see what there

for sale.

It Is recorded in the minutes of the meeting: "The Prime Minis ter thought that as a precaution- ary measure the Admiralty should assemble a large number of smab vessels in readiness to proceed to ports, and inlets on the French coast."

(Continued On Page 11)

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Bay, how I love my buddy dear

The genial Japance

Who never over thinks about His nasty, thickerence Now peaceful democratle ways He has so plainly learnt. Chorus:

Dai Nippon knows that patience

pays

You'll get your Angers burnt.

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